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ABCs of Exploring Books with Reading Games and Crafts

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On Monday and Tuesday of this week, I shared the first two part of this series on the ABCs of Exploring Books with Reading Games and Crafts. On Monday I shared reading games and crafts that begin with the letters A-H. Tuesday I shared reading games and crafts that started with the letters I-Q.

Today instead of sharing a book and the activities we did to explore it. I am going to finish the series of ABCs of Exploring wit the letters R-Z. There is still a place below to link up your Read.Explore.Learn. post below. 
ABCs of Exploring Books with Reading Games and Crafts R-Z

 

 

Here are reading games and crafts ideas that start with the letters R-Z :

R

Reused  Royal Tube Scepter

ABCs of Exploring Books with Reading Games and Crafts R-Z

 

 
After reading the story Potty Animals: What to Know When You’ve Gotta Go!scepter with a cardboard tube and ribbon. I love how the ribbons swirled.
 
Ribbon Spool Racing
 
We loved reading the book That’s not fair, hare! After reading the book, we created ribbon spool racers displaying a tortoise and a hare. During our races, the turtle and hare both had turns at winning. 
 
 
Rolling Out Play Dough
 

ABCs of Exploring Books with Reading Games and Crafts R-Z

 
The snail shell in the book Ordinary Oscar became part of a play dough exploration. I printed out a picture of a snail and JDaniel created a long narrow piece of play dough that he could display on the snail’s spiral shell. 
 
 
S
 
Square Paper Plate Craft
 

 

 ABCs of Exploring Books with Reading Games and Crafts R-Z
 
I am not sure why we had a square yellow plate, but it sure made a pretty sunflower paper plate craft. JDaniel made this sunflower after reading the books Sunflower Houseand to be like the sun.
 
 
Spool Painting
 
Painting the foliage and flowers on trees with spools was a lot of fun after reading  Hopper’s Easter SurpriseSpelling with Clothes Pins
  
 ABCs of Exploring Books with Reading Games and Crafts R-Z
 
A file folder, some clothes pins with letters written on them and a picture of an aardvark made for a fun spelling activity to do after reading The Awful Aardvarks Shop for School (Reading Railroad)Snacks with  Book Themes
 

ABCs of Exploring Books with Reading Games and Crafts R-Z
 

After reading a book about the fire truck, JDaniel had a fire truck snack. Book themed snacks are fun to make and children really enjoy them.

 

Sewing or Stitching a Character
A book character can be traced onto cardboard and then made into a sewing card that your children can weave yarn through. Just like the goat JDaniel worked on after reading The Three Billy Goats Gruff (My First Fairy Tales)

 
T
Testing Out Concepts

 ABCs of Exploring Books with Reading Games and Crafts R-Z

 

JDaniel read about Fletcher catching leaves in the book Fletcher and the Falling Leaves and decided that it would be fun to try. I took out his butterfly net and JDaniel tried to catch falling leaves.

 
Transportation 
We read the book Madeline in Londonand created a double-decker bus using an old cracker box. Old boxes are great for creating transportation. Trains, plains, and automobiles can all be made out of old boxes.

 
 
U
 
Understanding Concepts in a Book
We used an old orange juice box to make a robot that would help us review the initial consonants of words after reading Maisy Goes to Preschool.

 
V
 
Validate Feelings Talked About
 
After reading a book about feelings like Llama Llama Misses Mama, JDaniel painted worry rocks to take with him to preschool. 
 
 
W
Write a Poem

 
JDaniel and I composed a poem about the moon after reading the book The Fox in the Dark.
 
 
X
 
X-Ray Craft
 

We read the book My Mom Has X-Ray Visionand then JDaniel made a mom with x-ray vision out of noodles, paper, and old 3-D glasses.
Y
 
Yarn Painting
Yarn can be used in so many ways. In December JDaniel used it to make a Christmas card to send to his uncle who is serving in Afghanistan.

Z

 
Zoo
If you read If I Ran the Zoo you could visit the zoo. That was exactly what we decided to do. 
 
How have you been exploring children’s books this week?

 

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  7. Another blog I’ll always refer to when doing projects with my son. Thank you so much. Love all the projects you do with them. You must be very patient!

  9. All such good ideas and easy to do too! Thanks for sharing I’m pinning this.

  10. Great ideas, especially the clothespin spelling! I bet my kindergarten sidekick would love that one, since he’s reading-and-spelling obsessed at the moment. Thanks for sharing!

  13. What a fantastic collection of activities! I always love reading your book posts.

  15. SO clever! I love the spelling with the clothes pins because you get reading, spelling, and some motor skills in clipping on the pins. Love it!

  19. So many fabulous and fun ideas here. I look forward to giving some a try.
    Thanks for hosting the linky. 🙂

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